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The New Canada
by DarkMark Twain

I sincerely hope with all my heart that all is well back there. It's your honeymooners on the road reporting in unharmed, so far. Damn, this shit has been crazy for me, but I'm sure it's been hell for you. I'm sure nothing has happened to you rock hard brothers but, hey, I'll just say a prayer for you anyway. In light of what's up, I just hope you get this message.

Valentine's Day, the second honeymoon, romantic Cancun, and then this, this OUTRAGE!. When we left the country, it was just for a week vacation. Now I feel like the Skipper on 'Gilligan's Island'. I'm a homey without a home.

When I first I heard what they were doing to you guys, I was at a sleazy, seaside saloon. They had two- for - one tequila drinks. I didn't know that the Sun could rise so many times in one day. I was on my fifth one at 5pm when CNN came on.

Bernard Shaw's face was somehow different. It was a peculiar and uncomfortable look, but familiar to me . It was fear. Fear was etched in this man's face. The out of place face drew me towards the screen. The sound on the set was dimmed and Mariachi music from the juke box would have drowned it out anyway. Video clips showed President Buchanan and vice-president Duke signing a bill. They cut away to scenes of urban unrest and riots. What the hell?.

What I saw next sickened and shocked me. Tanks and troops from major cities were just gunning down Black people in the street. If they didn't get shot, then they got brutally arrested. I was stunned, but not really as suprised as I thought that I should have been. Finally they showed the caption to explain all this chaos. President Buchanan had re-instituted slavery.

I stood there for a minute in disbelief. I thought about American history. I soon realized that this new 'broken treaty' was not at all out of character for this very confused country. The first thing I did was grab the wife and we ran like Toby on steroids, and Harriet Tubman on crank, as far away from the resort as possible. As far as I was concerned, 'Club Med' was now 'Club Dead', and baby, I was ghost . We traded in the mid-size rental car for a four wheel drive rental truck. I then drained all the cash I could get from my banking and credit accounts. The TRW report can kiss my ass now, I aint paying back shit.

Somehow we ended up here in Nicaragua. We are sharing a house in Managua with a very nice Sandanista family called Ramirez. You may write me, in care of them, I'll get it. If Oliver North and his fourth reich stormtroopers show up down here, they will get smoked. Don't believe what the media told you about the Sandanistas. The media lied about them just like they lied about us. Look at where those lies have got us today.

I saw CNN on at the American Consulate recently. National Grand Imperial Wizard, Mark Fuhrmann, was officially named 'czar of re-education and re-enslavement'. He did a demonstration of the new computerized ankle shackles. The anklets have a built in homing device and a remote control detonator so that the punisher doesn't have to get all messy, like in the old days of whips. I missed the end of that program because me and my Sandanista friends sort of burnt the American Embassy to the fucking ground on an unannounced visit.. These things happen. OOPS!!

I figured I'd drop you a letter before we take off again. I'm not sure where we will end up. As our people said before, 'I'd rather be buried in my grave, than to live like a slave." I refuse to go back unless complete freedom is restored. Until that time, consider this an open-ended honeymoon.

If you're OK then make a 'run for the border', get to Nicaragua. A homey that just joined us said that an underground railroad starts in Phoenix, runs through Mexico, and ends here. THE NEW CANADA.



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